Perhaps unreasonably, we look at square one in this recovery as the time when Dodie will be able to rotate the pedals of her trainer bike once. She is not there yet. But to be fair, there has been a lot of good progress since the previous entry, that was titled "What a Pain".  Since then, there is no more wincing when just sitting still, and the heavy drugs have been replaced by lighter drugs, which are now going to get tapered down and out!

Three visits a week to the perceptive and gentle physio are helping a lot, and Dodie is diligently doing the prescribed movements. But still, the pedals are not going around. Doing that takes a flex of perhaps 110 degrees. Dodie can quite easily do 90 now. The physio has predicted that the first rotation will happen next week. Dodie says the week after. 

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Kathleen ClassenHooray! That is exactly how are son started out (ACL surgery) and his physio said biking is the best for knees. I assume that applies to new ones as well as repaired ones.
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Bill ShaneyfeltProgressing! Keep it up!
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I loosely calculated that one of our tours requires 5 million spins. But who is counting!